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Re: dnscheck (problem solved?)
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Chris Bartram <[log in to unmask]>
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Chris Bartram <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 2 Mar 2005 22:53:11 -0500
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> For those of you in mixed-case environments where dnscheck is failing --
> why
> aren't all of your hostname instances using the same case?  Is there some
> technical reason or standards compliance reason?  Or is it just careless
> inconsistency?

Mark;

  It's probably Microsoft's retarded DNS software.

  If you've ever had its use inflicted on you (as I have recently ;-) )...
You'd discover that it seemingly arbitrarily upshifts or downshifts the
names you enter into it. And it's rules for reverse (PTR) records seem
different from the case-shifting rules it uses for A records.

  Brought to you thoughtfully by the same people that turned a 250 byte "hi
mom" email into 256KByte XML monstrosity ;-)

 -Chris B

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